Available PhD opportunities

What can you expect? 

From science to humanities, we offer a diverse range of studentship opportunities. Here are some examples of the studentships we recently advertised and the university we collaborated with to give you a flavour of the types of doctoral projects we often offer: 

• Where the little things are: understorey plant megadiversity across scales, with Queen Mary University of London
• Assessing extinction risk for the African Baobab under climate change and habitat degradation, with Swansea University
• Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950, with University of York
• Protecting YEWth: ancient and veteran yew trees as collections of genetic diversity through centuries, with Birkbeck, University of London
• Unravelling the adaptive value of leaf traits using digital and experimental approaches, with Bath University
• Re-storying the Sussex Weald Garden: Exotics, Empire and Ecobiography, with University of Sussex

Potential supervisors or students interested in working with us on a science PhD are invited to contact our Doctoral Partnership Manager (sciencetraining@kew.org). Those interested in working with us on a PhD in the arts, humanities or social sciences are invited to contact the Interdisciplinary Research team (planthumanities@kew.org) to discuss project proposals.

Doctoral training partnerships

Kew is part of the following UK-based doctoral schemes, which all offer funded PhD studentships. Most are open to both UK and international applicants but have only limited places available for international students. Please follow the links for further information about each programme.